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Donald Trump Trolls Silicon Valley

The new regime has had enough of smarty-pants geeks inventing stuff and making billions.
Trump's new regime is blowing up the tech industry.
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How to Fuck Up America: A Field Guide for New People in Power.

1. Humble the Technology Industry

The new regime in D.C. seems to have had enough of smarty-pants geeks who spend one Red Bull–fueled week writing an emoji chatbot food-ordering app and sell it for a billion dollars. Over the past two decades, the U.S. tech industry has been a stunning force throughout the world. China didn’t invent Google. Russia didn’t come up with Facebook or Amazon or cloud computing or Oculus Rift virtual reality goggles. America did. And now tech is 7 percent of the U.S. gross domestic product, and that mostly goes to both coasts and a little to Austin, Texas, but

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